Brown unobtrusively notes his own return to Anglican churchgoing in the mid-1970s, as a consequence of his encounters with different religions in his journeys through West Asia. Brown arrived in ...

Cassius Dio recorded the disturbing story that when there was a shortage of condemned criminals to be fed to the lions, Caligula ordered a random group of spectators – “some of the mob ...

An educator, Peterson has often spoken about the importance of classic literature in understanding human nature, politics and culture. It might come as no surprise, then that among the books he ...

However, he managed to return once more, became the teacher of Epictetus, and, according to Cassius Dio, persuaded Vespasian of the wisdom of expelling Stoics from Rome for being proud and arrogant.

Macrinus didn’t hide his Africanness. According to ancient historian Cassius Dio, he even had a pierced ear, which Dio identified as a custom among the people of his region.

The Roman historian Cassius Dio tells us nearly a century after the fact that the Emperor Titus put on a naval battle of some kind in the Colosseum during its inaugural year in 80 A.D. Five years ...

The Roman historian Cassius Dio wrote that animals were involved in the performace, albeit horses and bulls rather than sharks, which imply the water was relatively shallow.

“Historian Cassius Dio talks about an animal that he refers to as a cameleopard,” says Scott. A cameleopard may evoke the image of a mysterious exotic big cat, but it’s what ancient Romans ...

Emperor Nero, according to Roman historian Cassius Dio, staged a naval battle "representing Persians and Athenians".

To mark the opening of the Colosseum in 80 C.E., the Roman emperor Titus staged a staggering spectacle, flooding the arena ...